Antique Wooden D R Barton Plow Plane Repair and Restoration

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This is the repair and sympathetic restoration of a D R Barton Plow Plane
The D R Barton Company of Rochester N.Y. was a large tool maker in the mid 1800s.
The markings on this plane suggest it was produced between the Civil War (1865) and the end of the company in 1880.
The plow plane was usually one of the carpenters fanciest tools, and therefore they were often made as showpieces. Many were decorated with ivory or silver and they were often made out of exotic woods like Brazilian Rosewood or Ebony. This one is rather "plain" by comparison (pun intended) and my guess is it is made from Boxwood because that was a common wood for D R Barton to use according to records.
This plane was found in a basement where it had been sitting for at least 60 years. The wood was extremely dry and had cracked in several places. the metal had rusted badly, and everything was covered in dirt and cobwebs.
It was my goal to restore this tool to a usable state and bring back its beauty without removing all of the proof of its age and use.
The locking screw for the depth foot would have originally been a brass button that screwed into the side of the body of the plane, but somewhere along the line the threads pulled out and a blacksmith fabricated a wrought iron plate to hold the button in place. Instead of making a new button, I cleaned up the plate and kept it as part of the tool's history.
The wooden screws that hold the fence were both cracked and in need of repair. I had to pull them completely apart to properly glue them.
I would have had to remove too much material to get rid of all the pitting in the metal, so I did some clean-up, and made sure the remaining pits were rust free and treated with some protective oil.
The blade is very interesting. at the time this plane was made, high-carbon steel was hard to manufacture and was expensive. So it was common practice to forge weld the steel to the cutting edge of a tool, and make the remainder of the blade out of wrought iron. That is exactly what was done here and the Evapo-Rust highlighted it beautifully!

Products used:
Evapo-rust
Mineral Spirits
Boiled Linseed oil
Super Bluing
Gun Oil (any kind will work, I had an old bottle)
Honing oil (again go with any kind you like)
00 steel wool
320 wet/dry sandpaper
Coarse diamond stone
Arkansas Stone
piece of leather for a strop
Glass beads in blast cabinet
Gorilla Wood Glue

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